A trusted Verizon employee has just confirmed to TechCrunch that the carrier is having an all-staff vacation blackout from the dates of Friday, September 21 to September 30. You know what that means, right? The next iPhone, whether it’s called the iPhone 5 or simply the new iPhone, will almost certainly be available in stores (with lines wrapping around the back of them) starting Friday, September 21.

As mentioned earlier today, the iPhone 5 will be a really big deal for Verizon, as it will likely give them an LTE 4G device, which is lightyears ahead of the CDMA-bound one they have now.

So, if accurate, Verizon is absolutely going to want to have everything prepped and ready for what might just be their biggest phone launch ever.